(US, telecommunications, informal, historical) Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years thr
(US, telecommunications, informal, historical) Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.
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(US, telecommunication, informal) Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the 1980s as part of an antitrust agreement.
The Bell telephone company (after Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.).
(slang, UK) To make a phone call.
(UK, slang) To telephone someone.
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(slang) the best; great success.